Digging for their lives: Russia's volunteer body hunters

Of the estimated 70
million people killed in World War Two, 26 million died on the Eastern
front - and up to four million of them are still officially considered
missing in action. But volunteers are now searching the former
battlefields for the soldiers' remains, determined to give them a proper
burial - and a name.

Olga Ivshina walks slowly and carefully through the pine
trees, the beeps of her metal detector punctuating the quiet of the
forest. "They are not buried very deep," she says.

"Sometimes we find them just beneath the moss and a few
layers of fallen leaves. They are still lying where they fell. The
soldiers are waiting for us - waiting for the chance to finally go
home."

Nearby, Marina Koutchinskaya is on her knees searching in the
mud. For the past 12 years she has spent most of her holidays like
this, far away from home, her maternity clothes business, and her young
son.

"Every spring, summer and autumn I get this strange sort of
yearning inside me to go and look for the soldiers," she says. "My heart
pulls me to do this work."...